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"Scientists have not publicly objected to such high-flown hopes, which have helped fuel new sources of grant money like the $3 billion initiative in California for stem cell research.

In private, however, many researchers have projected much more modest goals for embryonic stem cells."

Isn't taking money under false pretenses fraud?

1 posted on 03/10/2009 9:45:11 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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To: reaganaut1

is all the money congress is spending a fraud?


2 posted on 03/10/2009 9:47:26 AM PDT by scooby321
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Imagine a researcher writing up application for a govt grant:

“I intend to achieve modest goals”


3 posted on 03/10/2009 9:48:51 AM PDT by silverleaf (Freedom's just another word for "nothing left to lose")
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Is this the NYT saying Bush was right?


5 posted on 03/10/2009 10:01:53 AM PDT by almcbean
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The hype with embryonic stem cells: We can heal the sick, we can make the desert bloom, we can raise the dead: Just send more money. Where have we heard this before?
7 posted on 03/10/2009 10:07:53 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (Swift as the wind; Calmly majestic as a forest; Steady as the mountains.)
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To: reaganaut1

ping


9 posted on 03/10/2009 10:41:20 AM PDT by PMAS
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